The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... that it detected no global dipole magnetic fields ...

Our solar system was doing just fine without humanity for 99.995% of its lifetime Our Solar System is quite “young”, at least as far as solar systems go. Using radiometric dating, scientists were able ...

Mars and the Earth’s moon have localized regional magnetic fields at different places across their surfaces, but no global field ... refer to the small rocky and metallic bodies of the inner solar ...

G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

A colossal coronal hole, nearly 500,000 miles (800,000 kilometers) wide, has opened in the sun's atmosphere ... are no longer contained, instead streaming outward into space. The solar wind ...

Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...

Solar-Powered Desalination System Requires No Extra Batteries Oct. 8, 2024 — Engineers built a solar-powered desalination system that produces large quantities of clean water despite variations ...

A planet parade is when several of our solar ... our solar system other than Earth. It will be difficult to see them all since Saturn, Mercury and Neptune will be quite close to the sun right ...

Take advantage of the federal tax credit and strong local incentives to move forward with solar panel installation. Here's what we know about installation companies in New Jersey. Between federal ...

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon” may actually be a chunk of the moon that chipped off thousands of years ago. The celestial ...